The Documentary history of the state of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, secretary of State. By E. B. O'Callaghan ...

s8 JOURNAL OF THE
in the field with the ploughmen, and one to the river side; Saw
nothing.
30th September, Sunday afternoon, caused powder and ball to
be distributed to the soldiers and Indians; one pound powder,
one pound lead each, with three pounds biscuit for this expedition. Nothing else happened to day.
lst October being Monday, we marched from Wildwyck with
these following troops; of the Military 102 men; of the`Marseping Indians 46 men; of the freemen 6; with 14 horses
obtained from the farmers of Wildwyck for the use of the
expedition so as to be able to accommodate the wounded, should
we have any. Marched with these troops about 9 hours and
arrived in the'evening.about 7 miles from Wildwyck where we
passed the night. Experienced scarcely any trouble through the
day; hhd considerable rain in the night.
2nd ditto. Started again with our troops and about two o'clock
in the afternoon came to the fort of the Esopus Indians where
we had attacked them on the 5th September and there found five
large pits into which they had cast their dead. The wolves had
rooted up and devoured some of them., Lower down on the
Kill were four other pits full of dead Indians and we found,
father on, three Indians with a Squaw and a Child that lay
unburied and almost wholly devoured by the ravens and the
wolves. Sent out, immediately a party of Dutch men and Indians
four miles beyond the fort in a South westerly direction where
our guide presumed some Esopus Indians would be, but on
coming there discovered nothing but some wigwams which had.
been a long time abandoned by the Indians. Meanwhile I had
been over the Kill with a party of men and pulled off the corn
and threw it into the Kill. The troops returned in the evening
without having seen any Indians. About two miles from the
fort perceived the trail of two Indians who had gone across the
mountain; supposed to be strange Indians The trail was a day
old.
3d ditto. Early in the morning despatched a party of soldiers
and Indians into the woods to see if they could not find any
Indians; sent a detachment again over the Kill to pull up the
maize.and throw it into the Kill. In the afternoon sent two